Homebuyers take a breather as mortgage rates continue to fall Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:48:53 Purchase loan demand eased last week, but rates are expected to keep falling on a new report showing there are more people unemployed than there are job openings for the first time since the pandemic. read more»
RE/MAX purchases Compass’ North Shore offices in Chicago Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:59:32 RE/MAX has purchased Compass's Chicago North Shore office locations, Inman learned on Wednesday. Compass offloaded the brick-and-mortar locations as a result of its $444 million acquisition of @properties Christie's International Real Estate, which closed in January. read more»
Mr. Cooper shareholders approve merger with Rocket Companies Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:25:59 Rocket hopes the $9.4 billion deal will help it capture 20 percent of all mortgage refinancing and wrest back its title as the nation's biggest mortgage lender from rival United Wholesale Mortgage. read more»
America’s homeowner population declines for the 1st time since 2016 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:15:58 During the second quarter of 2025, the number of homeowner households in the U.S. dipped by 0.1 percent year over year to about 86.2 million households while the number of renter households grew by 2.6 percent to roughly 46.4 million households. read more»
How 1 agent pivoted when his social media leads peaked Wed, 03 Sep 2025 8:30:23 Ian Grossman hit a high point of gaining leads through social media that coincided with the Austin market hitting its pandemic peak. Once the market cooled and those leads started to fall off, he pivoted by adjusting his social strategy and nurturing his database. read more»
Single-family rentals continue to grow as a desirable asset class Wed, 03 Sep 2025 8:00:43 Growth in the single family rental asset class, Michael Zaransky writes, reflects lasting demographic realities, housing affordability constraints, and evolving cultural preferences around mobility and stability. read more»
How Glenn Sanford built eXp into a billion-dollar brokerage Wed, 03 Sep 2025 8:00:29 In this episode of Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered — exclusively on Inman — the founder and CEO of eXp World Holdings gets raw and unfiltered about his journey from housing crash to CEO. read more»
RMLS launches an AI use agents can get behind: getting paid Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:28:03 Real estate agents in Oregon belonging to Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) will be a bit quicker to verify the integrity of their deal documents thanks to the latest artificial intelligence offering by Restb.ai. read more»
Fed Governor Lisa Cook didn’t commit mortgage fraud: attorneys Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:09:42 Hundreds of economists say Trump adminstration's move to fire Cook "threatens the fundamental principle of central bank independence and undermines trust in one of America’s most important institutions." read more»
NAR fires back at Mauricio Umansky’s PLS in new legal filing Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:15:10 The trade association essentially denied all allegations that The PLS made against it, arguing that Clear Cooperation and NAR policies are "lawful, justified, procompetitive [and] pro-consumer," and that they were conducted with NAR's legitimate business interests in mind. read more»
